gulf
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The leveraged fund earned an annualized average of 1.6 percentage points less than the underlying index over the long run—a cumulative gulf of more than 590 percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The gulf between contribution rates of those paying loans and those without debt widened with age.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Age gaps in digital literacy are a global concern, yet the gulf has widened massively in the hyper-connected and fast-ageing country, prompting national campaigns to bridge it.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
So for all the tension between the film and its subject to come through in the press of late, the gulf between them is not so wide as one might suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
This lower stretch of the river, from Hoover Dam to the gulf, has little in common with the unbridled torrent that explodes through the Grand Canyon, some 250 miles upstream from Topock.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
All nine countries lining the two connected gulfs, including Iran under any management, will want passage restored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Soaring income inequality and a housing crisis have widened the gulfs between classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
England have contributed to the biggest gulfs, beating Italy 74-0 and Ireland 69-0 in 2022.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023
The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022
It came from the stars and the black velocities, and the shining movements, and the silent gulfs of space.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary lists containing gulf
The United States
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 4
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They Call Me Güero
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